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VIGNA CATJANG (COWPEA) 



The seeds may be sown for a pure crop at intervals of 

 o'66 metre, and will then give a better yield than if sown 

 at intervals of i metre, and a better one still if only one 

 plant of each pair be allowed to remain. The results we 

 obtained in a trial at Saint Hubert, on the Grand Port sugar 

 plantation, of several rotation peas, have been arranged in 

 a table which we reproduce further on. They clearly prove 

 that in a pure cultivation the best plan is to sow at intervals 

 of o"66 metre, and only to leave one plant in each hole. 



\Photo hy G. Rehaut. 



Fig. 35. — I, Dry pods of different species of Cow Peas; 2, dry pods 



of Amberique. 



In a mixed cidtivalion through canes, either in everv 

 row or in every second row, the planting mav be from 60 to 

 70 cm. apart, and although it is usually preferable to sow 

 single plants only, in this case three seeds are sown and the 

 three plants are allowed to remain, the main object being to 

 cover the ground rapidly in order to avoid the growth of 



